You might have wonder why this little space was so silent, well I’ve been working really hard sketching, vectorizing and painting the new Illustration print line for my shop =] And I’m beyond excited to finally (an officially) launch it today!

As I mention in a previous post, one of my goal for this year was to go back to pen and paper, draw more and try new things. And this is a new as it gets, I had the idea of selling prints for two years now, but I was always too busy to invest time on that little venture.

I’ve had a lot of emails and comments asking to show how I made the name sign for the nursery, so today I’ll share how I did it and maybe others will want to experiment with their own baby’s names or just words, I think I’m going to make one for the kitchen next 😉

This project took me a long time because I made it the first month after Peanut was born, at that point I could only try to do something while he was sleeping, but crafting was not a priority when you are sleep deprived and with a messy house =] The good part, I got to REALLY enjoy having a few minutes here and there to relax and play with cardboard!Read more →

I can’t believe 2013 it’s already here! it seems to me only a couple of year a go it was the year 2000 =]
I am kind of behind on my Christmas photos, so I wanted to share our photos along with my 2013 resolution.

My resolution for this year was to get back into drawing and using pen and paper again. I’ve done handwriting and graphics for my blog designs before, but my resolution is to create a line of prints to sell on my Studio’s etsy shop. My idea is to create a line of sewing/crafting prints and some other nursery and office focus ones. I’m excited to explore that creative outlet again! Here a few preview of what I’ve been working on.

Santa also surprised me with this beautiful serger, so I also want to learn about it and do some tutorials =] Another project I want to tackle is the one I started two years a go, my 101 in 1001 I need to update the things I’ve done but I still have a way to go, my plan is to try and finish all of it before October. I also have cool collaboration plans for a new series of post that I know a lot of you would really like, so yeah! lots of exciting things going on right now.

I think there is only a few project that had made me as excited as this one, probably because I hand-sewed “Mom” and “Dad” (in spanish) on our stockings so in my head that made us “official” parents ha!

I am not going to lie usually I could have done a project like this in a very productive afternoon, but it actually took me a few weeks to finally finish, for a few days I though that they were not going to be done before Christmas, but if you follow me on instagram you already know that actually I came about a week early =]

Sewing with baby Peanut with me was a challenge, some days I was lucky to have about and hour of uninterrupted work, but it was very worth it! My initial idea was to have very modern typography stockings for all of us, but one day while feeding baby Peanut I started to doodle characters that I though would look very cute as stockings, I was immediately sold on the idea and made templates for each one of “us” the same day, planned the colors and happily the only thing I had to buy were a few thread colors I didn’t have.

I decided to make Ken a snowman with a green hat in honor to his Irish heritage, I made baby Peanut a Polar Bear because to me he looks like a little bear now =] Curly got to be a reindeer and I decided to be a very feminine penguin with pink ear muffs.

The process was super easy with the patterns, I just draw the shapes into a real size paper stocking template. Then cut all the pieces, pin them to my felt cut and assemble.

I can’t believe the holidays are already here! I feel like only last month was March =] (I guess that’s what happens when you have morning sickness for 28 weeks hehe) This year was a specially blessed one for our family, we became home owners in March and now I finally have my own space for sewing, crafting and an office for my Design Business. Then a couple of months a go we received the greatest blessing ever, our darling little boy! I don’t have words to describe how much we love this little man, he melts our heart with every smile (and every single face he makes)

We could not be happier, we feel extremely blessed and thankful. I know that there is a lot of people that can’t wait for 2012 to be over so they can start a new year fresh from everything. So I want to wish to everyone many blessings for this holiday season and upcoming year, may all your wishes come true and I hope 2013 brings lots of JOY to your life =]

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